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Thursday, January 1, 2015

2015 Personal Reading Challenge (and 2014 Review)

Moving back to America over the summer, we were reunited with the books that were in storage for three years. Twelve boxes' worth of books. We thought about whether we were ever going to re-read (or in some cases read for the first time) the massive collection that had waited for us. A lot of books were academic books. My wife has a computer science degree, I have one in philosophy. Hers are from ten years ago so they are a bit dated. Mine are a lot of esoteric topics that would have been useful if I had stayed in academia but are shelf fillers otherwise. So we decided to sort through and make three groups: (1) ones we want to keep, (2) ones we want to get rid of, and (3) ones we want to read (or re-read) to see if we want to keep them. The "read and keep or donate" shelf looks like this:

"Read before donating" shelf

Oh, and this shelf...

More books on the chopping block

And this shelf...

We ran out of book ends!

If I had a full time job reading books I might possibly read them all in one year, but at my current rate, that's clearly impossible. Here's my ambitions for this year:

Books of fiction:

Two from Michael O'Brien's end time series--I'm not sure which ones but I will list them.

In Praise of Folly--Okay,
Erasmus isn't really English, but he was good friends with St. Thomas
More, so that's my excuse for putting him here. We visited The
Netherlands and saw some of Erasmus's old stomping grounds. Reviewed here!

3 comments:

I like how often our podcast has been mentioned! Aside from that I love seeing how many graphic novels you have reviewed. I just can't get into them but I do read all your reviews of them. :-) I look forward to seeing how you like Anansi Boys. It is a favorite of mine. The audiobook is especially good.

I wish I had time to read every book you discuss on the podcast. I just checked our county library and they do have the audiobook version of Anansi Boys as a downloadable audio file. I may try that out--we've only ever borrowed CDs from the library.